Journalists staged a protest demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday and condemned the attack on Recorder House on Monday by unidentified miscreants in Karachi. The demonstration was spearheaded by Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) President Nisar Mehmood and Peshawar Press Club President Nasir Hussain. Besides, a large number of media persons belonging to print and electronic media organisations participated.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners and shouted slogans against continuous attack on media organisations across the country. They also raised voice against attack on Recorder House and another private news TV channel in Karachi. The journalists strongly criticised the attacks on offices of two private TV channels in Karachi. They demanded proper security arrangements by the government and law enforcement agencies for the media persons and their organisations.
Nisar Mehmood said Pakistan had been declared most dangerous region for journalists according to report of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). He said journalists were feeling insecure and threats to their lives, after continuously killing of their colleagues and terrorists' attacks on the media houses across the country. He criticised that the government and law enforcement agencies had failed to take appropriate steps for protection of lives and properties of the masses.
"We demand adequate measures for protection of journalists and media houses across the country," Mehmood said, adding the government must take serious steps to stop such attacks on media houses in the future. The journalists also demanded of the government to immediate arrest those people who involved in these attacks on media houses in Karachi. They warned that if the government was failed to prevent such attacks, then they would hold a long march to Islamabad to stage a sit-in outside the Parliament House for indefinite period.
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